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20-22 July 2000
Versailles,France
The conference took place in Versailles on the 20th, 21st and 22nd of July 2000. It has a special interest for Jungians: first, because through its vocation and its work the IAHP plays a foreground role in the research and current debates on the history of the psychoanalytic movement, especially with regard to the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). Secondly, because of its theme, History of psychoanalytic clinical work from Freud to the present, this conference concerns us directly; finally, because it was convened with the official support of the IAAP, which was represented in Versailles by Christian Gaillard, Tom Kirsch and Verena Kast. Each of them presents here his or her observations and impressions.
These three reports are published simultaneously by the Journal of Analytical Psychology, the Cahiers jungiens de psychanalyse and Analytische Psychologie.
The Editors
When Dr de Mijolla contacted me, and through me the IAAP, inviting us to participate in the VIIIth meeting of the IAHP, I immediately thought that this was a sign of the times.With the agreement of my fellow officers of the IAAP, I then proposed and organized the contributions of Tom Kirsch, Verena Kast and mine. The experience of the event proved to be a positive and promising one indeed.
Dr Alain de Mijolla is a pre-eminent classical French Freudian, the president of the IAHP, and he is well known for his personal writings as well, especially Les visiteurs du moi (The visitors of the ego), a book very close to Jungian thinking from several aspects. He has been in touch with us for some years, as, through Tom Kirsch, he invited more than fifteen Jungian colleagues to contribute to his International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, which is being published this Spring by Calmann-Lévy in Paris. He also directed a series of TV programmes devoted to the great figures in psychoanalysis and broadcast